Garment-hanger



No. 609,743. Patented Aug. 23,1893.

- .1. s. HEATON.

GARMENT HANGER.

(Application filad mm. 26, 1898.)

. PATENT; OFFICE.

JOHN S. HEATON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARM ENT-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,743, dated August23, 1898. Application filed February 26, 1898. Serial No. 671,819. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. HEATON, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates especially to that class of garment-hangers usedfor supporting womens dresses.

The object of my invention is to so construct the hanger that it willhold the skirt of a dress by the waistband without creasing and alsosupport the back of the skirt. ject I attain in the following manner,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l isa perspective view of my improved garment hanger adapted to hold a skirtand waist. Fig. 2 is aview of the hanger adapted to hold only a skirt.Fig. 3 is a modified form. Figs. 4 and 5 are views showing the method ofholding skirts of difierent-sized bands, and Fig. 6 is a view of amodification.

The ordinary method of holding dress-skirts has been either by loops orbya device similar to a coat or waist holder,which bulges the dress outof shape directly below the waistband and does not support the back ofthe skirt properly. The back of a skirt is usually much heavier than thefront or sides and will sag if not properly supported. By my invention 1am enabled to support a skirt without wrinkling and without sagging.

Referring to Fig. 1, A is my improved garment-hanger, made, in thepresent instance, of wire, preferably in one piece. a is the hook bywhich it is supported. The wire is bent to form two arms a a at eachside of the central hook for supporting a waist or coat, and

the wire is continued below the arms and shaped to form a segmentalsupport B for a skirt, the sides I) I) being curved, as shown, tosupport the skirt. The curved sides will support from the smallest tothe largest stockskirt. If the waist is narrow, it will rest on thesupport near the top, as shown in Fig. 5, audit the waist is wide itwill rest on the support near the bottom, as shown in Fig. 4-.

The segment may be made either, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with a flattop and. sharplycurved sides or, as shown in Fig. 8, in the form of asemicircle. The sides I) b are con- This obnected at the bottom by abrace Z), and extending from the brace 11 to the joint with the hook isabar d, having a series of hooks (1, made, in the present instance, bybending the bar. These hooks engage the back of the skirt where thewaistband is fastened and hold the back portion of the skirt up on alevel with the sides, so that the entire skirt will hang properly.

In a store skirts displayed on these hangers will be shown to the bestadvantage and will not crease or sag. They can be arranged in rows,taking up very little space, and the skirts can be placed upon thehangers without trouble and quickly removed therefrom.

It is important that the back of the waistband of the skirt should be ona line with the side of the waistband. Consequently I use a series ofhooks arranged one above another, so as to accommodate skirts withdifferent sized waistbands.

While I prefer to make the frame of wire, it may be made of a lightcasting or of wood, either bent to form the segmental portion or madefrom a solid piece B, as shown in Fig. 6, and the hooks (1 may be nailsor screws driven into the segmental piece B, as shown 1 i in Fig. 6; butI prefer to make them by bending the wire into shape.

The hooks are preferably arranged at an angle, so as to readily engagethe waistband and hold it.

I claim as my invention- 1. A skirt hanger having curved sides adaptedto be inserted within the skirt and to project through the waistband endthereof so as to support the skirt-body by its waistband resting on thecurved sides, and ahook centrally arranged between the said sides and ona line with the points of support of the waistband on said sides andadapted to en gage the rear portion of the waistband, substantially asdescribed.

2. A skirt-hanger having a segmental portion upon which the waistband ofa skirt can rest, and a series of vertically-arranged hooks within thesegment, said hooks being so ar ranged that one will engage the backportion of the waistband of a skirt mounted on the segmental portion,substantially as described.

3. A skirt-hanger made of bent wire and having a segmental portion withcurved sides IOO upon which the waistband of a skirt can rest,

said portion being wider at the base than at;

the top, a cross-piece at the bottom; and a Vertically-arranged Wireextending from the upper portion of the segment to the cross-bar andbent to form a series of hooks adapted to engage the back of theWaistband of a skirt, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of IO two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN S. I-IEATON.

Witnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, J 0s. 11. KLEIN.

